Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2543-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2543-2017
Research article
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09 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 09 Nov 2017

Ice shelf fracture parameterization in an ice sheet model

Sainan Sun, Stephen L. Cornford, John C. Moore, Rupert Gladstone, and Liyun Zhao

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The buttressing effect of the floating ice shelves is diminished by the fracture process. We developed a continuum damage mechanics model component of the ice sheet model to simulate the process. The model is tested on an ideal marine ice sheet geometry. We find that behavior of the simulated marine ice sheet is sensitive to fracture processes on the ice shelf, and the stiffness of ice around the grounding line is essential to ice sheet evolution.
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